Each letter in 'Liberators'
is cut from an actual photograph taken during liberation of camps. To view full
photos/text, click on the letters.

COMMENDATION TO LIBERATORS

To liberate means to free.Liberators of concentration camps include not only the troops who broke
down the gates to the camps, but also support troops who followed immediately
afterward to provide medical care, food, clothing and loving-kindness.They too were rescuers.

These liberatorsshare the
bond of an uncanny experience, one that befell some of them briefly, some for a
few hours, others for several days, and still othersfor weeks and months.They
bear witness for those who were treated to tortures humankind has yet
imagined.They offer that witness
to us so that their memories will live and have enduring meaning long after they
are gone, and ensure that an evil of this magnitude will never again be
permitted.